Problem: The process of finding, paying, and communication between landlords and tenants can be very tedious. A lot of housing at Temple is very separated across websites (Walnut Realty, Craigslist, Govberg, the View, Temple Villas, etc.)

In this course the most important things I learned included the material for the last exam. Exam 3 dealt with data analysis, clustering, nodes and using R for descriptive statistics. I could use this information to emphasize the importance of selecting groups of data and finding patterns to determine correlations between groups.

Yesterday we had a guest speaker come into our Weekly Speaker Series for Gamma Iota Sigma. He used R to measure credit risk of consumers and financial institutions and see the likeliness of losing money due to credit defaults.

This infographic does a good job of visualizing data. It’s very concise so the reader does not have to look too hard to find the information that they are looking for. Having pictures of food next to the text also creates a good visual representation of…[Read more]

A situation where you would need to join data tables to get information would be which new restaurants at temple were the most popular. To do this temple can link the restaurant table to the transactions table. From there Temple can see where students are spending their money and what they are buying.

The challenging aspect of ERDs is the Cardinality between two entities. This can be difficult because you have to determine the relationship and depending on the prompt it can affect the type of relationship there is. My advice would to be think of the possibilities and pick the one that makes the most sense.

During the Summer of my second year I worked at a local Mexican Restaurant called Burritos. We collected data on consumers purchase, the time they were purchasing and what day they were purchasing. From this data we were able to interpret it into information and forecast future revenue, peak times and days. This helped us figure out how much…[Read more]